This Practice welcomes new patients who live within our practice area. Anyone in England can register with a GP surgery. It is free to register.

It is not a legal requirement to provide proof of address or immigration status, ID or an NHS number but it might help if you have one or more of the following:

• passport
• birth certificate
• HC2 certificate
• Proof of address
• rough sleepers' identity badge
• hostel or accommodation registration or mail forwarding letter

If you're homeless, you can give a temporary address, such as a friend's address, a day centre or the GP surgery address. If you decide to register for online services we would need to check your details to confirm your identity before giving access to confidential patient information. A member of the reception team can provide further information if required.

You can download a GMS1 registration form on GOV.UK. The GP practice will also ask you to complete a new patient registration form to collect important health information about you. You will also be asked to complete a new patient questionnaire.

If you need help registering with a GP Practice or filling in forms, call the GP surgery and let us know on 01642 243668 (Borough Road surgery) or 01642 315390 ( Nunthorpe surgery.We can help with this. You could also ask for help from:

• local organisations - for example if you are homeless you could ask a centre that supports homeless people
• Citizens Advice
• your local Healthwatch

In order to register with the practice you must live within the practice boundaries.  If you move outside the practice boundary you must inform the surgery and register with a local doctor as soon as possible.

Our area covers the River Tees to the North, the A19 to the West, Brookfield, Acklam, the estates adjacent to Cargo Fleet Lane and Ormesby Bank, Marton, Nunthorpe, Coulby Newham, Hemlington and Stainton.

Both surgeries on 167a Borough Road, Middlesbrough and 27 Stokesley Road, Nunthorpe have full disabled access, there are also dedicated disabled parking spaces close to the entrance to surgery. The consulting rooms are all on the ground floor with easy access throughout. Disabled toilets are available.

If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice for 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months. This will allow you to be on the local practice list and still remain a patient of your permanent GP. After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with that practice.

To register as a temporary patient simply contact the local practice you wish to use. Practices do not have to accept you as a temporary patient although they do have an obligation to offer emergency treatment. You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the town or area where you are already registered.

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups.

Open the leaflets in one of the following languages:

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